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The world is full of facts, and if you are as hungry for knowledge as we are, then we've got a whole menu readily available to you. Here at Bored Panda, we have random facts, mind-blowing facts that are perfect for 5 year-olds, facts that can even change your perspective of things, and facts that sound utterly fake but are totally true.

But this time we rolled up our sleeves and compiled a list we can call “the palate cleanser.” You see, this one is not for the faint-hearted, nor for the ones with high blood pressure and a tendency to have a nightmare or two every now and then, ‘cause today, we're gonna dive into the facts we wish we never knew.

You may wonder, why read them, then? It’s for the same reason we watch horror movies with covered eyes. Getting to know some creepy stuff about the world is hard, but not knowing it is even worse.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know After the Pulse night club shooting, when the cops were investigating, you'd think it was pretty quiet in there.

It was actually a cacophony of ringing cell phones. So many friends and loved ones calling people they knew were there, hoping they'll answer the phone and say they're ok...

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know Before you die, your last words could be, "I don't feel so good."

I was a paramedic for 15 years and heard dozens of people's final words. The phrase I heard most often, possibly from half to three quarters of them, were some form of "I don't feel so good." I've also heard, "Wait, somethings wrong." "Somethings happening." "I don't feel right." "Wait, somethings wrong." "It's happening." "Oh no, Oh no."

People feel the blood leaving their brain I think. Must be like a rush.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember listening to a few 911 calls on youtube when people said these words when they died...those gave me gooosebumps..

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know Many pets die because their owner dies unexpectedly and nobody comes to check on them in time.

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You’re not the only one to get the creeps from scrolling through this post. There’s something about being creeped out that is both chilling and yet impossible to resist. But what exactly is this creepy feeling we all get? It surely can’t be graveyards, clowns, spiders, or horror movies themselves.

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Frank McAndrew, a professor of psychology at Knox College in Illinois, has been studying this sensation and made a conclusion after surveying more than 1,300 people that “Creepy is about the uncertainty of threat.”

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know There is a whale called 52 Blue that only sings at a frequency of 52 Hertz, meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the "loneliest whale on the planet."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The inspiration for the song "Whalien 52". The artists described themselves as the lonely whale in their earlier years because no one seems to hear them and listen to their songs. "Lonely lonely lonely whale Like this, try calling once again Until this song that doesn’t have a response Reaches tomorrow"

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know Female dragonflies fake their own death to prevent rape.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know On Mt. Everest, you have the rainbow valley, the last zone to climb to reach the peak. Which sounds cute but it's really the colorful jackets of dead climbers who are frozen in time against the white harsh snow.

Also, when close to the peak, the oxygen levels are so low that the body is starting to die. You only have a few minutes to reach the top.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My teacher told this to my class when I was in 5th grade (10 years) and I still remember me going home and crying for all those who died on their way.

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More specifically, Frank said, “You’re feeling uneasy because you think there might be something to worry about here, but the signals are not clear enough to warrant your doing some sort of desperate, life-saving kind of thing.” Thus, it’s different from having a fear of something or revulsion.

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According to Smithsonian Magazine, when you’re creeped out, your brain and your body are telling you that something is not quite right and you’d better pay attention because it might hurt you. We become more alert and ready to strike whenever the threat turns out to be real.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know During the French Revolution, where the guillotine was introduced, the people to be executed fought to be first, as the blade would dull after multiple uses and wouldn't cut a head clean off at the first attempt.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know There’s something called “Anaesthesia Awareness” where of certain people go into surgery and they don’t give you enough Anaesthesia, it will look like you’re asleep (eyes closed, not talking or moving), but the patient can still hear and feel everything that’s happening, but here’s the scary part. You’re unable to move, speak or open your eyes. Unless they have a monitor to show your brain activity, you’re stuck with having to endure the pain.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i have read of people waking up in the middle of operations suffering pain but unable to let someone know. Apparently if they notice things like pulse and heart rates will indicate something is wrong

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know Being the oldest person alive means that every single human being who was alive at the day you were born has now died.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another thought is - the exact moment you were born, you were the youngest person alive.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know When whales reach a certain age they will eventually be to weak to swim back to the surface for air. So they will just suffocate to death and eventually sink to the bottom of the ocean.

But at least when they sink to the bottom of the ocean their bodies will create sprawling ecosystems that will last for a good few years.:)

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Most sitcom laugh tracks were recorded in the 1950s, so you’ve probably been listening to dead people laughing.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know A professor at my lecture today said that deer will lay on decaying corpses because they produce heat and the deer like that. Basically deer treat corpses as their personal sauna.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know In the event of a water landing, flight attendants are specifically required to not allow dead bodies on the life rafts. No saving your dead parent/child/spouse for burial. Yeet that b*tch overboard.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know On airplanes they turn off the lights before takeoff and landing basically in anticipation of the plane crashing.

Your eyes take time to adjust to the dark, so if the plane were to crash your eyes would be pre-adjusted, thus increasing your likelihood of being able to make it out.

They also ask that window blinds be opened in order to allow anyone outside to be able to see in in order to check for survivors.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know The dolphin which most often portrayed Flipper on the 1960s television show Flipper committed suicide.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kathy was the dolphin who most often played Flipper, and she committed suicide. This happens due to depression. In this case, it was crippling captivity. In another case, it was being separated from a researcher with whom the dolphin developed a strong bond. More on that story here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me

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Humans have enough bite power to bite off their finger. Bone and all. The only thing stopping us is our brain's natural safety factor.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know It is way easier than you would expect to break someone ribs during CPR and it feels really weird. POPPOPPOPPOP like bubble wrap.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't need to compare it to bubble wrap. I will never think of popping those bubbles the same way again.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know The astronauts of space shuttle Challenger didn't die until the spacecraft hit the ocean. They fell through the air for almost 3 minutes.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No way to confirm this as true; I worked 29 Shuttle launches. It is more likely they were killed or unconscious from the explosion, or killed from lack of oxygen or G-force. It is almost certain, but no way to verify, that they probably were dead or completely unconscious immediately after the explosion.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not what other sources say: https://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-challenger-shuttle-disaster

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They lost consciousness only a few seconds after the shuttle broke apart, so no, they weren't "going down in terror".

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every schoolkid in America was watching this at rhe time. I remember my teacher just sitting there frozen with her mouth open for a minute.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And one of them had been a grade school teacher who'd been taken on board as a publicity stunt. Her whole class was watching on live TV

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The worst thing for me is that their death was totally preventable.

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Randy Klefbeck
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the cold weather shrunk the o rings around the booster causing a fuel leak.

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Philippe Jespersen
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyones an expert on this one after having watched that new Netflix documentary. 😂

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that would not be fun imagine being suspended in air for 3 minutes knowing your going to die

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

3 of the 7 oxygen masks were deployed & used. So yes at least 3 of them were still alive.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg, did not need to know this. Three minutes is can be an eternity, especially in pain and/or knowing you're going to die...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I watched the series/documentary on Netflix and it made me really sad :-(

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They sat in their capsule, on the bottom of the ocean floor for six weeks. When the divers got to them, they took personal things off their bodies. Those men were court martialed and removed from the military.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What "spacecraft"? We all saw it explode and break apart in the sky

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I find this VERY hard to believe, considering how massive the explosion was.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As stated above, the shuttle itself did not explode. The launch configuration of a space shuttle consisted of 4 parts: 2 SRB's (the white rockets on both sides), the ET (the external fuel tank, the brown 'cigar' on the belly of the shuttle), and the space shuttle itself. The right SRB had a faulty seal ring (due to the cold weather), causing hot gasses to leak onto the ET. This caused a structural failure of the ET. This made the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in the ET combust rapidly (but not explode, from a chemical p.o.v.). This made the shuttle veer from its correct trajectory, and the shuttle was ripped apart by the resulting aerodynamic forces. The cockpit remained largely intact until it hit the water. It is assumed that most astronauts survived (but possibly unconscious) until that impact, but not certain.

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This is also not a "fact." Nobody knows. It is likely that one or two survived the initial explosion but unlikely that anyone survived until the time the craft hit the ocean.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Read Ludwig Michael’s explanation below. He gives a very good & detailed explanation. Plus, their personal emergency oxygen was activated, which meant they used it, along with heart monitors, etc... So they could tell how long they were most likely alive for. I still remember watching this in school. It was such a big deal, classrooms had TV’s brought in and cable hooked up, etc...

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This isn't true, the event was bad enough as it is without trying to sensationalise it.

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Should a moderator to remove this particular post? It appears at least inaccurate and it unnecessarily offers quite a painful image.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not inaccurate. The part of the cabin they were in remained intact and was found that way at the bottom of the ocean. It's thought they died when they hit the ocean st very high velocity. Whether they were conscious or unconscious at that time is unknown.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know Judith Barsi was the young actress who voiced Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go to Heaven and Ducky in The Land Before Time. She was murdered at the age of 10 by her abusive father, who also killed her mother at the same time. Judith's gravestone displays Ducky's catchphrase, "Yep! Yep! Yep!"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am not ok now. :( Ducky was my favorite and I can still remember that catchphrase more than any other part of the movie.

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Fatal familial insomnia is a thing. It's a rare, incurable prionic brain disease that progressively destroys your brain’s ability to sleep. Eventually, you stop sleeping altogether, go insane, have seizures, and die.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know There's been multiple cases of people actually ending up being eaten by an escalator.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know There are only three states in the USA that have outlawed child marriage: New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let's add this as number 5038 of the list "What's wrong with America". Seriously - not even the most liberal states? Not California? Not Nevada? Not New York?

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know Your lips are made of the same skin type and texture as your anus.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

its just the other end of the same pipe XD when you kiss someone you are just a s**t pipe with 2 anuses

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know The song “Baby Shark” is actually the perfect rhythm to guide infant CPR.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know If you electrocute someone while they are submerged in water, it won’t leave burn marks.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun Fact: Pure water and distilled water do not conduct electricity. Normal water conducts electricity thru the countless impurities in it such as sodium, calcium, and magnesium, etc.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know In Formula 1, safety belts were not mandatory until 1972.

Before then, drivers believed it better to be ejected in a crash, and either die instantly from a broken neck or suffer many broken bones.

The alternative, they thought, was to be trapped and essentially cremated alive should the gas tanks ignite.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Niki Lauda Was famous for surviving bad crash. He nearly was burned to death in his car. he survived to continue his racing career and becomes World Champion. His racing goggles literally melted to his face and most of his ears where burned off. The fact that he only missed less than 2 months of his racing season tells the story of huis fortitude and pain endurance.

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There's a zombie fungus that basically enslaves ants for its own benefit until it kills them.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's pretty scary, the ant literally has a mushroom growing out of its head, like a "cute" little hat. The possessed ant will try to go back to its colony so that the fungi can infect more with its spores. It's like a zombie ant-pocalypse.

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There is a parasite called Dracun culiasis, or more commonly "Guinea worm" that can enter your leg through drinking infected water. You won't notice anything until ~1 year later, when a small portion breaks the skin to release larvae. At this point, it's a meter long.

A. Meter. Long.

And it has to be extracted centimeter by disgusting centimeter.

NTDs are the stuff of nightmares.

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Not morbid but unnerving, at any time without any warning you can die of a brain aneurysm and there is litterally nothing you can really do about it. Anyone can have one.

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30 Of The Creepiest Facts People Have Shared In This Viral Thread That Many Wish They Didn't Know You can die from pooping too hard.

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